Yeah! So I could do something like:<br><br><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">'q ctlinfo'</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">temp=sublin(result,10)</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">desc=substr(temp,10,20)</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">'draw string 4.5 8.3 description is 'desc</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<br>That could work, but I didn't know if there was a more simple way of going about it.<br><br>-Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Did you try parsing the output from 'q ctlinfo' ? --Jennifer<div><br><div><div>
<div><div class="h5"><div>On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Joe Moore wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">Hello all!<br><br>I am looking for a method to extract a variable's description and units from the control file. For example, if I plot tmp2m, is there an easy way to extract the description of what tmp2m is from the control file so that I can use it on the plot in a string or title? I know I can print the available variables and other info with the 'q file' command, but to grab the description and unit from the resulting text seems to be a complex task. Since I know I can 'q time' to get the time info, is there a similarly simple way to grab a variable's description/unit?<br>
<br>I've searched online for examples of how to do this but I can't find anything. Maybe I'm approaching my issue in the incorrect manner? I'm making plots of model data for a personal website on a regular basis (eg. similar to <a href="http://www.instantweathermaps.com/" target="_blank">http://www.instantweathermaps.com/</a> or accuwx pro, but much, much less comprehensive). I can't use OpenDAP with my web server, so I'm using shell scripts + grads scripts. <br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Joe<br><br></div></div>
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